On Illinois` Death Row, 125 Murderers Face The Ultimate Punishment

These are the men on Illinois` Death Row, the convicted murderers sentenced to the state`s maximum punishment for killings that involved more than one victim, children, public officials, prison inmates or were committed with other crimes.

The prisoners below, listed with their current ages and in order of their sentencings, are in various stages of appealing their cases. None, however, has had his death sentence replaced, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.

FOR THE RECORD - This story contains corrected material.The name of Lloyd Wickliffe was misspelled in the published story.

1) John Szabo, 32. Fatally shot and stabbed brothers John and Christopher Rajca, 19 and 17, Jan. 27, 1979, during a drug deal south of Naperville.

2) George Delvecchio, 42. Slashed the throat of 6-year-old Tony Canzoneri during a Northwest Side home invasion Dec. 22, 1977.

3) James Free Jr., 36. Fatally shot Bonnie Serpico, 34, of Glen Ellyn, after raping her and another woman April 24, 1978, in a Glen Ellyn factory.

4) Kenneth Allen, 48. Shot and killed Chicago police officers William Bosak, 33, and Roger Van Schaik, 31, March 3, 1979, in retaliation for police confiscating weapons from his home three months earlier.

5) Hernando Williams, 35. Raped and murdered Linda Goldstone, a natural childbirth instructor at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Williams abducted Goldstone March 30, 1978, from near the hospital and drove around for 36 hours with her in his trunk before shooting her to death.

6) John Wayne Gacy, 47. Convicted of 33 counts of murder after authorities discovered 29 bodies of young men and boys buried in the crawl space of his Norwood Park Township home in 1978. Authorities also found four other bodies in the Des Plaines River, where Gacy said he had thrown them.

7 and 8) Juan Caballero, 29, and Luis Ruiz, 30. Stabbed and slashed to death Michael Salcido, 17; Arthur Salcido, 19; and Frank Mussa, 16, Feb. 24, 1979, in a North Side alley following a dispute over gang affiliations.

24) Henry Brisbon, 34. The ``I-57`` killer sentenced to 1,000 to 3,000 years for the 1973 murders of a Chicago couple, Brisbon received the death sentence for fatally stabbing Richard ``Hippie`` Morgan, 31, a fellow inmate at Stateville prison Oct. 19, 1978.

25) Charles Albanese, 53. Fatally poisoned his mother-in-law, Marion Mueller, 69; his wife`s grandmother, Mary Lambert, 89; and his father, Michael, 69; by lacing their food with arsenic in 1980 and 1981 in McHenry and Lake Counties. Albanese wanted to inherit his relatives` money and take over the family business.

26) William Jones, 35. Stabbed Margaret Dare to death during a Jan. 25, 1982, burglary of the elderly woman`s rural Jefferson County home.

27) Gregory Madej, 31. Raped and stabbed to death Barbara Doyle, 38, after meeting her Aug. 22, 1982, at a North Side tavern.

28) Willie Thompkins, 40. On Dec. 22, 1980, shot Gerald Holton, 31, and Arthur Sheppard, 39, two Markham drug dealers who had been infringing on the territory of a drug-selling gang with which Thompkins was affiliated.